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World's longest expressway tunnel to link northern and southern Xinjiang

The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, described as the world’s longest expressway tunnel, will be open to traffic by the end of this year, creating a new shortcut between the northern and southern parts of No...

Jerusalem advances blue line works and plans 2-km city-center tunnel

Jerusalem has expanded construction activity on the 31-km Blue Line light rail corridor, issuing early December municipal notices that confirm continued utility and surface infrastructure work along...

Edina reviews $20m pedestrian tunnel across France Avenue near Centennial Lakes

The City of Edina is evaluating a new pedestrian and bicycle crossing beneath France Avenue, a six-lane corridor that carries more than 27,000 vehicles per day. The proposed route would connect neigh...

Oman-UAE cross-border rail project enters underground work

Tunnel excavation has officially started in the Al Hajar Mountains as part of the UAE–Oman Hafeet Rail cross-border railway project. Access roads to tunnel portals were previously completed to facili...

New York transit funding temporarily halted

The U.S. federal government has temporarily halted $18 billion in infrastructure funding allocated for critical transportation projects in New York City, including the Hudson Tunnel Project and the S...

Securing Energy Supply Through Standardised Nuclear Construction

Britain is advancing its nuclear programme with Sizewell C in Suffolk, designed as a near-identical counterpart to Hinkley Point C in Somerset. This approach of standardisation is expected to lower c...

Mumbai Sewer Tunnel Sets Record with 87m Curve

A significant engineering achievement was recorded in India’s tunnelling sector with the successful excavation of a tight 87-meter radius curve using the 3.14-meter diameter Rock EPBM (TBM S116). The...

Drilling for the 5.63-kilometer-long Učka Tunnel in Croatia has been completed

It was announced that drilling for the new 5.63-kilometer-long Učka Tunnel in Croatia has been completed on Monday, September 18. The new Učka Tunnel will be the second road tunnel under the Učka mou...

Water main burst in the Andheri suburb of Mumbai, India

A water main burst in front of the Twinkle Apartments in the Andheri suburb of Mumbai, India, shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, August 23. What has been known so far is that the water main pipe had...

British company introduces waterless pumped storage hydropower technology

A UK-based company has developed a waterless pumped storage hydropower technology, and recently teamed up to deliver 100MW energy storage capacity projects by 2030. Furthermore, this technology work...

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